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most capable way, and we are happy to say that 
the final balancing of the books shows that the 
ciub is ahead on the proposition.” 
The going out of commission party of the 
Wollaston (Mass.) Y. C. will be held on Nov. n. 
R. W. J. Kingan, Harvard, ’oi, has offered four 
challenge cups for yearly races by sail and motor 
boats, for Harvard and Yale graduates and un¬ 
dergraduates, from New London to a point yet 
to be chosen. These are to be saiied for the 
Saturday following the annual boat races on the 
Thames. The finish will probably be off Oyster 
Bay, but the details have not been comp’eted. 
On Oct. 16 the Jackson Park (Ill.) Y. C. held 
its final meeting for this season. Thirteen yachts 
started in the long course race. Winonah II. 
Rebel II. and Cherry were winners in their 
classes. 
Miss Nora Wilson, of Baltimore, cast wine upon 
the water last Saturday as Tuna slid gracefully 
down the W’ays, tasting water for the first time. 
The new yacht was built by the Wilson Yacht 
Building Co., of Baltimore, for John Inglis, of 
Jacksonville, Fla., from designs by Cox & 
Stevens, of New York. She is 98 feet over-all, 
16 feet beam and draws four feet. Her motors 
develop 250 horsepower and will push her about 
fifteen miles an hour. Mr. Inglis will cruise in 
Southern waters. 
To Study Local Yachting. 
Navigation problems that confront motor boat 
owners and yachtsmen in New York and adjacent 
waters will be taken up in a special course on 
navigation to be opened on Nov. 6 at the New 
York Nautical College, now a part of the educa¬ 
tional work of the West Side Young Men’s 
Christian Association, 218 West Fifty-seventh 
street. The college, which was bought and given 
to the West Side branch by several New York 
yachtsmen, has equipment valued at $25,000 and 
includes everything from lead lines to models of 
full rigged yachts. 
The America’s Cup. 
Concerning the rumor that the New York 
Y. C. may revise the rules to avoid “freak 
speeding boats” and encourage “normally con¬ 
structed yachts” in the competition for the 
America’s Cup, The Yachtsman (London) has 
this to say: 
This is good news if only to show that 
American yachtsmen begin to acknowledge that 
a pure length class produces a “freak.” We 
discovered this on the Solent in the eighties of 
last century, when Mr. Manning’s 30-footer 
“Eclipsed” all records up to that date. The L. 
and S. rule was consequently launched in these 
waters. It was first propounded by Mr. Dixon 
Kemp in 1880, was used for second class racing 
in 1883, and adopted as the Y. R. A. rule for 
racing yachts in 1886. 
We have now arrived at a rule which contains 
other elements, and the United States at a rule 
which introduces a premium on displacement. 
Modern racing therefore aims at the ideal of a 
seaworthy ship with good scantlings and moder¬ 
ate draft, in fact moderate in all dimensions. 
In other words, the “freak” is tabooed. Never¬ 
theless the New York Y. C. has, till now, stub¬ 
bornly refused to alter the main condition gov¬ 
erning the America’s Cup competitions, viz., 
length of hull on W. L. with unrestricted S, B, 
Dft., and scantlings. In short, the so-called 
“Universal” rule is held in contempt by the very 
people who not only accepted it, but now, after 
several years of trial, swear by it. What cari 
be more illogical? 
There cannot be any doubt that the America’s 
Cup competition should follow modern practice, 
instead of striving how best to carry a maxi¬ 
mum of S on a given L. W. L. with a minimum 
of displacement; producing, of course, a hull of 
the lightest scantlings above the W. L. and an 
enormous draft; in fact, a “freak” useless for 
any purpose afterward. Moreover, the chal¬ 
lenger must cross the Atlantic; so, the defender 
can be built lighter. Other conditions are hard 
on a challenger, but it is not necessary to say 
more. 
Surely this great competition should be car¬ 
ried out like all other modern yacht racing, viz., 
by the challenger merely saying that he is pre¬ 
pared to race on dates to be agreed for the 
America’s Cup, with a yacht of such and such a 
rating by the rating rule now used in America 
for all other first-class racing, and by the racing 
rules of the New York Y. C. which are practi¬ 
cally the same as Y. R. A. 
Even then the defenders would have a 
stronger position, because European designers 
know little about the American rule, or how to 
tackle it. 
Judging through Westward, Meteor, and 
Waterwitch, Mr. Herreshoff can beat us with 
our own rating rule with yachts of large size 
wherein engineering, strength of materials, etc., 
become almost as important as shape of hull 
and of sail plan. 
In smaller yachts, however, Mr. Fife and Mr. 
Mylne are equally difficult to beat, and Mr. 
Herreshoff seems to know it, or we should have 
welcomed a few American racing yachts on the 
Solent at our great international gathering this 
year. 
Another thing against us in the America’s 
Cup competition is the manner in which we 
tackle the problem. As Mr. W. P. Stephens 
said in his excellent book on “American Yacht¬ 
ing” (Macmillan, 1904), p. 321, “without excep¬ 
tion the owners of the challengers” * * * 
“have known comparatively little about their 
yachts.” * * * “Lieut. Henn was a thorough 
sailor” * * * “but he never fully understood 
the great game of cup racing.” “General Payne 
with Puritan, and Mayflower, and Volunteer, 
* * * knew it perfectly” * * * “but it 
never touched a wheel.” * * * “Mr. Iseiin 
* * * in later years, lived on his boats 
throughout the season, leading, inspiring, and 
encouraging those under him.” 
The contrast is great. We leave it all to the 
skipper, a comparatively uneducated man as a 
rule, who would probably be stumped if you 
asked him to measure a steel wire rope and 
calculate its breaking strain, and its safe 
strength. If we are to win the America’s Cup, 
Mr. Burton must be put in charge, and given 
a free hand, with a wealthy syndicate behind 
him to make the English Rose win when the 
Thistle and the Shamrock have been defeated. 
As regards the skipper and crew, we have 
nothing to fear, but we certainly ought to get 
over early and practice for some time in Amer¬ 
ican waters instead of sailing about on the 
Solent. Thalassa. 
Sales and Charters. 
The following fail sales and charters are re¬ 
ported through the offices of Stanley M. Seaman, 
New York. 
Twin screw 112-foot gasolene sea cruiser 
Taniwha sold for Henry B. Anderson, of New 
York, to Alfred P. Lasher, of Bar Harbor, Me. 
Her new owner contemplates extensive cruising 
on the coast and through the West Indies. 
Eighty-foot semi-express cruiser Pellona sold 
for Wm. M. Lovering, Taunton, Mass., to John 
C. Tatum, New York. 
Launch Al'oan for H. G. Outwater, of New 
York, to Geo. Fuchs, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Gasolene 70-foot cruiser Idlesse for Alfred P. 
Lasher to C. S. Weston, Watch Hill, R. I. 
The steam yacht Evelyn for Fred Hirschhorn, 
of New York, to Jacob Martin, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Yawl Pohtatuck for C. S. Gibson, of New 
York, to C. T. Pierce, Riverside, Conn. 
Auxiliary catboat Gracie for H. E. Schell to 
W. D. Anderson. Her new owner has left for 
the South with his boat. 
Class Q sloop More Joy for W. H. Childs to 
P. V. Giffin, of New Rochelle. Her new owner 
expects to race in the Q class next year. 
Auxiliary yawl Mattacheeset for Lewis B. 
White, Norfolk, Va., to C. D. Fenhagen, Jr., 
Baltimore, Md. 
Gaso’ene cruiser Santee chartered for Francis 
L. Field to a New York party. 
Auxiliary Ketch Micco so'd for L. P. Bayard 
to John V. A. Cattus. 
Auxiliary yawl Columbine sold for Geo. Taylor 
to C. J. Danforth, Jr., New York. 
Sloop Wild Olive, formerly Mira, sold for 
R. H. Gat'ing to G. B. Lambert. 
Auxiliary yawl Circe sold for L. F. Crofoot, 
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Alteration and Repairs. Large list of Yachts for Sale, 
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Tenth edition. Published 1904. We have a copy in 
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sell for $9.00. 
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